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For months, I've been in major planning mode.

Like all hospitality conferences, most of the breakout sessions at the recent HITEC and HSMAI Commercial Strategy events focused on the use of AI for various applications. Although I already ...

Where do future leaders learn to make mistakes?

In case you had not seen, the United Kingdom has a new prime minister, one Andy Burnham, and one of his first decisions was to impose a 20% cut to business rates for pubs and live music venues.

I'm not sure if it's as surprising to you as it is to me, but the annual Hotel Data Conference is officially less than a week away.

As industry colleagues approached us at NYU recently, inquiring about our recent portfolio transaction with the principals of the G6, it became evident that there is a growing misconception that one ...

Hotel wellness is widely accepted in principle but remains challenging to implement effectively.

Now that The Big Soccer Tournament is over, the hot takes are rolling in on hotel performance, booking windows and which cities were winners. We have plenty of it right here in our pages.

The industry spent decades telling young people that hospitality is a career with genuine global reach, rapid progression and rewards that few other sectors match. Then it hired those graduates, gave ...

Artificial intelligence already is changing hotel investment and asset management in practical ways. It can model revenue per available room scenarios, benchmark capital expenditure assumptions and ...

In this modern world, we expect little new to be discovered, at least that which is visible and living on terra firma.

Seven World Cup matches took place in my backyard of Houston, and while I didn't attend any of the games, I sat front row waiting to feel the impact of the influx of fans into my hometown.

A conversation I often have across East African markets goes something like this: An investor or lender, usually based outside the region, presents a feasibility model built around peak-season ...

Over many years of creating and delivering hospitality training, I have encountered various acronyms ranging from H.E.A.T. to L.E.A.R.N. that are intended to summarize the steps in resolving ...

The United Kingdom is about to get a new prime minister.

We are currently in a moment where everything is the biggest and the most it's ever been.

We're in the era of big events.

The branded residences sector was set to grow by 100% between 2024 and 2031, according to Savills, with new brands and new geographies entering the mix on what is becoming a universally popular ...

Great hospitality still comes from people. That is not changing. But the way we support those people, the tools we give them and the tasks we free them from, that is changing fast. AI hotel staffing ...

Dear friends of mine organize a yearly festival celebrating the European Union on a tiny island, Ventotene, two hours by ferry from the Italian city of Naples.